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Village Board Approves New Aerial Fitness Studio

BY ANTHONY MURRAY

more towards the everyday person,” explained Armand. “Not only do we t a recent public hearing, the specialize in aerial arts, but some of village board approved Regina our other popular classes include and Pierre Armand’s applicayoga, Zumba, handstands, dance tion to open up an aerial dance and classes and flexibility classes as well.” fitness studio at 267 Horton Hwy., The aerial dance and fitness studio’s which drew some resident complaints proposed hours of operation are from about parking and traffic in the area.

Monday through Friday from 5 to 10 “I have a background in dance p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from and fitness and over the past eight 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The studio will start years, I’ve been studying and teachoff with six employees including the ing and competing in aerial arts in Armand’s, who have close to 50 loyal Manhattan,” said Armand, who is a clients who are based in Mineola and resident of Rosedale. “More recently its surrounding areas. over the past five years, I’ve been “You’re on Horton Highway teaching out in Long Island and attached to Nude Furniture on the Queens. But, basically the number one corner, how many spots behind that question [I get] is ‘what is aerial arts?’” building do you have?”asked Mayor According to Armand, aerial arts is Scott Strauss when it came time for a form of dance and fitness that takes the board to ask Armand questions place with equipment that’s in the air. regarding her application.

“It’s compared to Cirque du Soleil, “There are currently 30 spots when you think about the silks hangbehind there and it’s shared between ing or the hoop, but it’s just geared the tenant,” Armand responded. amurray@antonmediagroup.com

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Regina Armand addresses the village board at a recent public hearing. (Photos by Anthony Murray)

“Currently there are only two tenants, the furniture store no one is there right now, so there are 30 spots, but there is also parking on Jericho [Turnpike] and the side streets. None of those are in front of any residential houses.”

The studio will have three different rooms: one room will have three clients and the other two rooms will have 10 clients in each. Each class is an hour long and will have three classes from 5 to 10 p.m.

“I certainly wish you luck because we sit here often and this is different than what I’ve seen before,” said trustee Dennis Walsh. “People sometimes invest a lot of their money and don’t make it.”

When it came time for public comment, Mineola resident Linda Benedetto, who lives on Horton Highway, said that her main concern is the continuous traffic and parking.

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ON THE COVER who also lives on Horton Highway, shared the same sentiments as “I like the idea of what you do, it Benedetto when she approached the sounds really cool,” said Benedetto. “I board. don’t really think it’s a good location “My main concern is the parking for it. I’ve lived in my house for 45 and the traffic as Mrs. Benedetto years and it’s a very busy street. We explained,” said Graser. “I agree with have Chaminade people coming every bit of it between the [Jericho] down during the day, we still have Terrace, the furniture store and now people visiting the hospital since having the dance school from Monday Winthrop is at the end of my street. through Sunday? This is horrible. You There’s a lot of traffic going there.” cannot turn. It’s unbelievable. It’s too Benedetto also brought up the much traffic and congestion at that issue of a red light near her house on corner. Something has to be done. I Horton Highway that builds up a lot of don’t mind the school, but the parkcars who are waiting to make turns. ing. Where are they going to park?”

“Sometimes, they come down all According to Graser, people park in the way down to my house and they front of her house and halfway in her start honking and making U-turns,” driveway, making it a difficult situashe explained. “I don’t think there’s tion. Strauss responded that if anyone going to be enough parking spots is illegally parking anywhere within there for that lot and I don’t think the village, residents need to notify everyone who would be dropping the Nassau County Police Department someone off will go into the lot. I think and have them respond. they’re going to be stopping [in front “I understand the frustration,” said of the building]. I just think it’ll create deputy mayor Paul Pereira. “There’s an more of a problem there. I don’t think application here for a business to open where a business existed for decades. I it works.”

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Toward the end of the hearing, Armand said that parking has always been one of her biggest concerns and has been looking for more than a year for the perfect spot to open her aerial fitness studio.

“We don’t want our clients to be searching for parking, so this space was actually perfect for that because it has 30 spots,” said Armand. “We will definitely do our best to make sure that our clients don’t park in front of the houses so we want to work with the community and not against.”

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expenditures from the 2015 Capital Reserve (Wheatley tennis courts) with he Mineola Union Free School a 300-104 vote, expenditures from the District had its budget passed 2016 Capital Reserve (Wheatley Fields last week with 733 residents vot- and gym floor) with a 311-95 vote and ing yes while 207 residents voted no. the establishment of a 2019 Capital The budget this year saw an increase Project Reserve Fund (North Side roof of 1.79 percent, with a corresponding and Wheatley Auditorium) with a tax levy increase of 1.97 percent.

305-99 vote.

As part of the school’s 2019-20 budThe 2015-16 Capital Reserve get, it maintained current educational Fund propositions asked the and co-curricular programs for full community to support expending day Pre-K, maintained current athletic up to $1 million and $3.9 million, and extra-curricular programs and the respectively, to allow for the renovacontinuation of facilities upgrades in tions of the Wheatley tennis court, all buildings within the district. gymnasium floor and Wheatley Board of education trustee Cheryl fields renovations. The 2019 Capital Lampasona, who ran unopposed, was Project Reserve Fund (CPRF), which also reelected. is similar to previous ones, is funded “I am so humbled and honored through budgetary savings and to be reelected as Mineola school unanticipated revenues over the next board trustee,” said Lampasona, who seven years, up to $6.5 million, and thanked the local community. “I don’t acts as a savings account for spetake this position lightly and I look cifically identified capital projects. forward to serving the Mineola School Utilizing a Capital Reserve Fund for community for the next three years capital projects eliminates interest with the same drive and passion as I and borrowing costs associated with have served these past three years. I long-term borrowings. look forward to watching our school East Williston board of education community grow and flourish, espetrustees Alan Littman and David cially our new full-day Pre-K program Keefe, who ran unopposed, were that was incorporated into the new reelected, with Littman receiving 310 2019-20 budget.” votes, while Keefe snagged 321 votes.

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THE Cast of Be More Chill

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Below: Joe Iconis

(Photo by Stephanie Wessels)

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Composer Joe Iconis Makes Broadway History

BY KIMBERLY DIJKSTRA kdijkstra@antonmediagroup.com

When Be More Chill opened on Broadway in March, it was a dream come true for Joe Iconis.

The Garden City native wrote the music and lyrics for the musical comedy adapted from the young adult novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini. The story of how this musical made it to the Broadway stage—the Lyceum Theatre stage, no less—is unlike any other, thanks to the fans who identified with the material so much, they wouldn’t let it fade into obscurity.

“We...talk about anxiety and depression and these things that plague our society, but we...do it through this unexpected sci-fi comedy lens,” he said, and he has gotten nothing but positive feedback from fans who see parts of themselves in the characters. “I’ve been lucky enough to meet [many] Be More Chill fans in person…So many young people come up to me and say ‘Thank you for making something that feels celebratory, while still dealing with all of these issues that I go through.’”

That’s what makes Be More Chill stand out from the crowd. Though

it’s about an ingestible super-computer that teaches its teenage host to ‘be more chill,’ there’s a lot going on, and depth that might be easy to miss at first glance.

Following the run at Two River Theater in New Jersey in 2015, Be More Chill was effectively dead, living on only through the cast recording and tales of those fortunate enough to have seen the original production. A YouTube video of “Michael in the Bathroom,” the catchy and emotional anthem of the show, posted in 2017 went viral and essentially created the demand that this show return to the stage—which it did OffBroadway in 2018.

Iconis has been rewarded for his efforts with a Tony Award nomination for best original score, as well as Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations.

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I was definitely thinking about Roosevelt Field when I was writing the mall stuff.

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and lyricist refers to his musical as a celebration of suburban weirdness.

“We wanted it to play out in malls and in bathrooms and in house parties and backstage at high school auditoriums, which is my youth,” Iconis said. “I was definitely thinking about Roosevelt Field when I was writing the mall stuff.”

Musical theater has been a part of Iconis’ life since childhood. Though his family was not in the industry, they fostered his love of theater. He also credits the music education offered by the Garden City school district with shaping his future.

“I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have that access to music as a kid,” he said.

In junior high, Iconis participated in the musicals by playing piano in the pit.

He later learned to “properly exploit his love of the-

ater” by becoming the musical director for the Garden City Community Theatre and running the Hofstra Musical Theater Summer Camp.

Since then, he’s written quite a few cabaret shows and musicals, including The Black Suits, about a Long Island high school garage band, and several more on the horizon.

Broadway Bounty Hunter will open this July at the Greenwich House Off-Broadway. The musical written for Annie Golden tells the story of a theater actress of a certain age who is down on her luck and feeling the effects of a sexist, ageist society.

“Through a series of events, she gets wrapped up in the world of bounty hunting [and begins] an adventure to South America to capture a drug lord,” Iconis explained.

“It’s told in the style of exploitation films of the ’70s so it has this really cool R&B, funk score.”

Stay tuned for Love in Hate Nation and The Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, as well as a Be More Chill movie.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR SCHUMER SUPPORTS CCPA Dear Fellow Legislator: I write to express my support for the passage of the Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) (S.2992/A.3876), introduced in the New York State Assembly by Assembly Member Steve Englebright and in the Senate by Senator Todd Kaminsky. I applaud them, the broad coalition of environmental, labor, community and economic justice groups supporting the bill, and the bills’ 68 Assembly and 35 Senate sponsors for their leadership and commitment to passing this bold climate change policy for the state—one that will help vulnerable communities and create a tremendous number of new, family-sustaining jobs for fellow New Yorkers.

We live in unprecedented times. We are witnessing human-caused climate change— in the form of increased severe storms, floods, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather events—causing loss of life and damage to people’s livelihoods all over the country and world. The global scientific consensus has called on governments, industry and civil society to take action now to keep temperatures from rising above levels that would lead to long-term catastrophic climate change impacts. After Superstorm Sandy, I visited community after devastated community—Staten Island, Red Hook, Long Beach, Downtown Manhattan, East Harlem, Gerritsen Beach and more. I also visited many Upstate communities decimated by Hurricanes Irene and Lee, as well as the Lake Ontario communities and the City of Binghamton after catastrophic flooding. All these places were vulnerable, and all need our help to ward off future disasters—and better yet, to be more forward acting in addressing the harmful impacts of climate change.

I believe we must prioritize the urgency of climate change and the need to take bold steps to aggressively confront it, and that is exactly what the CCPA does, and it is what I am fighting for in the U.S.

and investment in communities at the front lines of climate change and pollution.

The CCPA mandates New York State achieve 100 percent greenhouse gas emissions reductions and a transition to renewable energy, economy-wide, by 2050. The bill directs 40 percent of all state energy investments to benefit disadvantaged communities, and creates strong wage and contracting standards for jobs that will be created in a renewable energy transition.

I understand that good faith negotiations on precise parameters are ongoing, and good ideas that improve the CCPA should be included in the legislation. However, New Congress. I have insisted that and other local jurisdictions York should be a leader on any federal infrastructure plan around the country respond- climate change, and the CCPA must have clean-energy and ing to the lack of leadership represents an achievable from the current adminispro-climate policies, includframework for implementing ing investments in electric tration take on the mantle of the kind of changes we need vehicles, energy efficiency passing ambitious climate to boldly confront climate and a modernized electric legislation that supports equi- change, while creating many grid to aid the transmission table transition to 100 percent thousands of good-paying of renewables like wind and clean, renewable energy, New jobs for fellow New Yorkers. solar. Likewise, I am fighting York can take a leading role Passage of the CCPA would for the inclusion of battery in reducing emissions and position New York to lead storage, electric vehicle and investing in communities that the national debate on how additional wind and solar tax are affected by the impacts of we can tackle climate change incentives as part of any tax climate change. and would offer an example extenders package. Along with From farms across the state for other states to follow—on our valued partners who lead battling changing weather how to do so while also the House of Representatives, patterns, to cities facing building a more just and we will also push in the urban heat risks, to the many equitable economy. With appropriations process for communities on New York’s the CCPA, New York State funding for cleaner electric coasts threatened by storms can reduce emissions and buses, resiliency, equitable and rising water levels, New catalyze green infrastructure clean-energy transitions and Yorkers are already facing the development with projects energy-efficient building impacts of climate change. As like community solar, energy incentives. I have also formed we address these challenges, efficiency retrofits, offshore we must also keep sight that a Senate Democrats Special wind, electric buses, mass communities that have faced transit expansion and more.

Committee on the Climate Crisis to continue to highlight historic discrimination, often- A transition to a 100 percent times low-income communi- clean, renewable energy the need for a bold climate ties and communities of color, economy is estimated to change agenda, and I will often bear too much of the prioritize moving significant create more than 200,000 and progressive climate legis- burden of industrial pollution jobs in New York in the first lation if Democrats regain the and can also be at greater risk decade. Taking bold action majority in the Senate after of climate change impacts. In today is a down payment on the 2020 election. addressing climate change, the state’s future. If we rise While New York has taken we must protect and invest in to the climate challenge, we some very significant steps the communities that are the can create tens of thousands to address these challenges, most vulnerable. of good clean energy jobs, more remains to be done. And The CCPA before the legwhile we protect vulnerable this gives New York another islature, if passed, would be communities—and secure a opportunity, like it has on the most robust climate policy viable and vibrant future for same-sex marriage and, in package passed by any state those who will come after days past, workers compenin the country. The legislation us. I look forward to working sation and safe workplaces, calls for a just transition to a with you as we confront these to be a national leader in an renewable energy economy, challenges. area of critical policy change. good jobs for many tens of —Charles E. Schumer As states, municipalities thousands of New Yorkers, United States Senator

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SCOUT NEWS

Mineola Troop 45 Strives To Do Their Best

BY STEPHEN BORGIA

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ineola’s Troop 45 was established on June 9, 1921.

In two years, Troop 45 will be celebrating its 100th anniversary and has been led by Scout Master Steve Grosskopf for the past 21 years. The boys in the troop are from Mineola and other surrounding communities, and are currently around 75 Scouts strong who are very active in the community. Troop 45 takes part in food drives through the Scouting for Food program and donates the food to local food pantries. As Scouts near the rank of Eagle Scout, which is the highest rank, members of the troop are required to perform a project, that mostly benefit the local communities and organizations. Troop 45 has had a very strong history of leadership development with more than 170 Eagles Scouts also.

Under Scout Master Grosskopf’s leadership, Troop 45 has won the Klondike Derby ever since he became Scout Master. Klondike Derby is a competition between troops, which tests scouts’ knowledge in

Troop 45 recently visited the U.S. Capitol. various scout skills and their ability to work as a patrol. Troop 45 also goes on High Adventure trips to places such as Alaska, Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Sea Base in Florida, and Northern Tier Scout High Adventure in Minnesota/ Canada. High Adventure trips are extended trips, lasting anywhere

between 12 to 14 days. Scouts can scale glaciers in Alaska, hike up to 120 miles on trails leading to elevations of 12,441 feet in New Mexico, go sailing from Florida to the Bahamas or go canoeing in the many lakes and rivers of Minnesota and Canada.

Troop 45 is very active, with troop

meetings every Tuesday night at the First Presbyterian Church on First Street in Mineola and camping trips almost every month. Anyone who is interested in joining can stop by on a Tuesday night between 7:30 and 9 p.m.

—Stephen Borgia is a Boy Scout with Troop 45 in Mineola

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Mineola Student Becomes NROTC Scholarship Recipient

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ollowing in his father’s footsteps, Mineola High School senior Nicolas Tavares had enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in June 2018, one year in advance of his graduation date. After scoring in the 90th percentile on his entrance exam, Tavares’ recruiter urged him to apply for the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Scholarship, which would provide him with all of the Marine Corps training, in addition to the opportunity to earn both his bachelor’s degree and an officer ranking while having his full tuition paid for through the scholarship. Tavares was notified in March that he is one of five in the Nassau/Suffolk/New York City region who have qualified for the national scholarship.

Tavares, whose father was a Marine in the 1980s after moving to the United States from Portugal, had been raised patriotic and always wanted to do more for his country. He has wanted to be a Marine since the fourth grade and has been preparing

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himself physically for the requirements by participating on the school’s track team.

“I feel lucky that I got this amazing opportunity,” Tavares said. “My goal was always to be a Marine, regardless of whether I got to go to college first. I feel a lot more secure that I get to do both things that I want to do at the same time.”

Nicolas is also a lieutenant and captain of the Mineola Junior Fire Department, holds a second-degree black belt in taekwondo and serves as a lector at his church. He goes once a month to his recruitment office to work out and meet with other

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, M&T BANK, Plaintiff, vs. MELISSA MELILLO, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on April 10, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the CCP (Calendar Control Part Courtroom) in the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on July 2, 2019 at 11:30 a.m., premises known as 239 Clemens Road

enlisted ROTC. As part of the scholarship, Tavares will receive full tuition, a book stipend, educational fees and other financial benefits at his choice of the country’s leading colleges and universities.

Under the scholarship, he will spend four weeks each summer participating in the ROTC Summer Academy, as well as fulfill a commitment to the Marines after graduating from college.

Tavares intends to major in political science and has not yet finalized which college he will be attending.

—Submitted by the Mineola Union Free School AMERICAN District MINEOLA - MAY 2

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North Hempstead, NY 11501 a/k/a 239 Clemens Road, Mineola, NY 11501. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Mineola, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 9, Block 333 and Lot 33. Approximate amount of judgment is $331,039.05 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #610074/2018.

Diana Lozada Ruiz, Esq., Referee Schiller, Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel, LLP, 200 John James Audubon Parkway, Suite 202, Amherst, New York 14228, Attorneys for Plaintiff 6-19-12-5; 5-29-20194T-#204161-MA LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY MTGLQ INVESTORS, LP, Plaintiff against THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN A, RANDAZZO, SR. A/K/A JOHN A. RANDAZZO, DECEASED, IF THEY BE LIVING AND IF THEY BE DEAD, THE RESPECTIVE HEIRSAT-LAW NEXT-OF-KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY OR THROUGH SAID DEFENDANT WHO MAY BE DECEASED,

BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN, OR INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE ANY RIGHT TITLE OR INTEREST IN OR TO

THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523 Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered May 3, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York 11501 on July 2, 2019 at 11:30 AM. Premises known as 51 Holly Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501. Sec 9 Block 297 Lot 125. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Mineola, Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $570,600.80 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 8652/2012. Cash will not be accepted at the sale.

Michael Ehrenreich, Esq., Referee 2296-002744 6-19-12-5; 5-29-20194T-#204159-MA

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St. Aidan’s Middle School Baseball Trains With Steve MacQuail

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On Wednesday, May 15, the St. Aidan’s Stallions welcomed former Major League Baseball (MLB) player and professional hitting instructor Steve MacQuail to their practice field for a two-hour batting practice session. MacQuail was a baseball standout in both high school and college and was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. He played in the Blue Jays and Arizona Diamondbacks organizations and finished his professional baseball career on Long Island with the Long Island Ducks. MacQuail then went on to coaching and is a very respected and in-demand hitting instructor.

MacQuail first gave the entire team an overview on hitting. He reviewed stance, the stages of hitting and finish. He then worked individually with every boy, working on and improving their swing and overall approach to hitting. The session ended with a team review of the hitting concepts they had just worked on.

Coaches Kenny and Patrick Solosky, who were both students of MacQuail, were happy with the batting session.

They had several players’ remark on how much they learned and how

Steve MacQuail gives The Stallions some pointers on hitting. helpful they found the advice given by MacQuail.

“We both trained with Steve and he knows hitting,” said Patrick. “It was nice that each and every player could benefit from his training.”

The St. Aidan’s Stallions finished their 2019 regular season at .500 with a 3-3 record and are ready for upcoming playoffs.

—The St. Aidan’s Middle School baseball team known as “The

Stallions” plays in the Catholic Spirit League. The league is school based and only utilizes wood bats in order to prepare the players for the Catholic High School League.

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